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Re: California Rocket Fuel+++ » Peter S.

Posted by Elizabeth on October 16, 2001, at 18:09:45

In reply to Re: California Rocket Fuel+++, posted by Peter S. on October 16, 2001, at 14:45:47

> If I might ask: what's your current regimen? What are the side effects that are so disturbing? Are they primarily from the bup?

Yes. I'm taking:

buprenorphine 0.3 mg (1 mL) t.i.d.
desipramine 200 mg b.i.d.
trileptal 150 mg b.i.d.
clonazepam 1-2 mg p.r.n.

plus some propranolol, bethanechol, Metamucil, and several antihistamines to counteract side effects.

The side effects are mostly caused by bupe, although some of them are probably exacerbated by the desipramine. Constipation is the most difficult one: I have to take Metamucil several times a day (kind of a hassle because
and even then it's still pretty bad sometimes. There's also some really bad dry mouth. Antihistamines don't seem to work very well for the pruritis ("the itchies"). I think that something (not sure which) is causing some sexual problems, and I sometimes get carbohydrate cravings which might be from taking large doses of antihistamines.

It's just so much stuff to manage, you know?

-elizabeth


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